Hyderabad: The state government has proposed to raise Rs 12,000 crore from the market during the second quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal (July-September), according to an indent placed with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for auctioning state development loans. This move follows a significant borrowing spree in the first quarter, where the government raised Rs 17,400 crore against the planned Rs 14,000 crore. The additional borrowing in the first quarter was primarily to fund the Rythu Bharosa sch...Read More
Nizamabad: The Rath Yatra was celebrated in Nizamabad on Friday as thousands of devotees participated in the annual event. Nizamabad Rural MLA R. Bhupathi Reddy, Urban MLA Dhanpal Suryanarayana Gupta, and agriculture market committee chairman Muppa Ganga Reddy flagged off the yatra from Gandhi Gunj, which proceeded through the main roads of the town. Speaking on the occasion, the Urban MLA said the Rath Yatra in Nizamabad was inspired by the famous Puri Jagannath Yatra, and expressed joy over t...Read More
HYDERABAD: A six-year-old boy was run over by a tipper lorry in a narrow road near a private school at Dundigal on Friday morning, when he was being dropped by his mother on a two-wheeler. According to investigation officer (IO) Savitha Choudhary, the boy, a Class 1 student and resident of Mallampet, was recently admitted to the school on June 10. On Friday morning, while he was on his way to the school with his mother, a tipper lorry, allegedly being driven in a rash and negligent manner, coll...Read More
Odisha: A tide of devotion swept through Odisha's pilgrim city of Puri on Thursday as Lord Jagannath's iconic Ratha Yatra -- the annual celestial chariot festival -- unfolded in all its ancient splendour. Nearly 13 lakh devotees from across India and abroad thronged the holy city as Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra embarked on their annual nine-day divine sojourn. An overcast sky and intermittent drizzle set a mystical canvas for this timeless spectacle, offering devotees the p...Read More
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted seven accused, including three absconders, in the December 2024 case related to the grenade attack on Gurdaspur Police Station by Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists, officials on Friday said. The terror attack on Ghanie Ke Bangar Police Station in Batala, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, was claimed on social media by BKI operatives Harpreet Singh alias Happy Passia and Gurpreet alias Gopi, they said....Read More
New Delhi: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday asked public sector banks (PSBs) should maintain profitability momentum in FY26 and take advantage of Reserve Bank of India's 50-basis points rate cut to increase lending toward productive sectors of the economy, according to the sources. The finance minister's statement came after chairing a meeting with the heads of PSBs to review financial performance of banks. Sitharaman also emphasised that banks should also onboard more custom...Read More
Bhopal, June 27 (UNI) In a bizarre incident, 19 vehicles of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav's convoy broke down together after diesel allegedly mixed with water was filled in their tanks at a fuel station in the Ratlam district of the state late Thursday night. Authorities carried out an inspection of the fuel station, and subsequently it was sealed. The stalled vehicles, mostly Toyota Innovas, had to be towed away and a replacement fleet was summoned hurriedly from Indore, to be ...Read More
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma here on Friday said that his government has decided to introduce a strict rule for issuing Aadhaar cards to adult citizens in Assam to check the influx of Bangladeshi nationals in the state more effectively. Asserting that his government was committed to drive out illegal migrants, the chief minister told reporters that his government has pushed back a new lot of 20 Bangladeshi nationals on Thursday. Informing that it is largely adults who are...Read More
New Delhi: After India refused to sign a joint declaration at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' meeting in China on Thursday, certain reports had claimed that the declaration had found a mention of the Balochistan crisis, but failed to mention the Pahalgam terror attack prompting India not to endorse the document. However, sources have clarified that these reports are completely incorrect. According to sources, the alphabet soup of the declaration document did not h...Read More
Hyderabad: Employment and Labour Minister G Vivek Venkata Swamy here on Friday said the State government would bring a best policy for the welfare of gig workers. "We will ensure that the Telangana gig workers policy will be a role model for the country," he said, while addressing a press conference at Secretariat. He also participated in a review meeting with officials concerned to discuss the problems being faced by gig workers. "It is necessary to protect the interests of gig workers in vie...Read More
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 27 (ANI): A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday evening. The police have arrested all three accused within 24 hours. The three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law college. Also Read | Student Gang-Raped at South Kolkata Law College: Police Arrest 3 Youths for Sexually Assaulting Young Woman Inside La...Read More
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that there is nothing on record to show any fraud in Maharashtra assembly elections. Dismissing a plea to declare the Maharashtra election null and void, a division bench held that the case of the petitioner appears to be "quite absurd to say the least". The court also held that the use of EVMs does not take away "free and fair elections" in any manner. Prakash Ambedkar, who appeared as a lawyer for the petitioner in the case, criticised the HC for overlook...Read More
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) will jointly organize a protest march on July 5 against the state government's reported move to make Hindi compulsory up to Class 4 under the 'Three Language Policy'. The announcement was made by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and MP Sanjay Raut at a press conference on Friday. Raut said, "We are not against any language. We have always respected Hindi. People like us have always valued it. Our party uses Hindi in many ways. But the rece...Read More
Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Brihaspathi Technologies, an AI surveillance and security solutions provider, on Thursday said it has raised $10 million in funding from foreign institutional investors and others. Brihaspathi will use the capital to establish a new 72,000 sq. ft. CCTV manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, which is expected to be operational by the end of the current financial year, the company said in a statement. It also plans to hire over 400 new employees. The company has been awa...Read More
Visakhapatnam: A low-pressure area formed over Northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal at 8.30 am on Thursday. The report said it is likely to move west-northwestwards across north Odisha and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Under the influence of the system, thunderstorms accompanied with lightning are likely at isolated places over north and south coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam and Rayalaseema. Gusty winds with a speed of 40-50 ...Read More
Puri (Odisha): The pilgrim town of Puri is all set to host the world-famous Ratha Yatra of Lord Jagannath and His siblings on Saturday, with elaborate security and logistical arrangements in place to manage the massive influx of devotees. Nearly two million devotees are expected to witness the centuries-old festival, which will see the deities -- Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra, and Sudarshan -- ride their ornate wooden chariots to the Gundicha Temple. Director General of Police...Read More
Gurgaon: Two days after a law student died and his friend suffered critical injuries when a car knocked them down as they stood near railing on the service lane of Delhi-Jaipur highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a civil engineer was arrested on Thursday.Mohit (31), an employee of a private company in the city, told police that he got drowsy while driving. He is staying at a PG facility in Sector 14.The student who died, Harsh Singhal (25), was a resident of Om Nagar colony. His friend Abhish...Read More
NIZAMABAD: Ahead of Union home minister Amit Shah's visit to Nizamabad on June 29, BJP state president and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy toured the city on Thursday to review arrangements and meet with local party leaders. He was accompanied by MP Arvind Dharmapuri, MLA Dhanpal Suryanarayana Gupta, National Turmeric Board chairman Palle Ganga Reddy, and BJP district president K. Dinesh Kumar. Kishan Reddy inaugurated the "Emergency Days" exhibition at the BJP district office and held discussio...Read More
HYDERABAD: After nearly 12 hours of continuous effort, officials from the Chandrayangutta fire station, along with the disaster response force (DRF) and Mailardevpally police, recovered the body of a five-year-old boy who had fallen into a 40-foot-deep well while playing near his house in Laxmiguda on Tuesday. According to fire officers, the child fell into the uncovered well at around 10.30 am while playing with his four-year-old brother in an isolated area near their home. The younger sibling...Read More
Srinagar: One of the four to five militants trapped in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district following the security forces' launching a cordon-and-search-operation early Thursday has been killed in a fierce gun battle whereas the efforts to neutralize others are underway, the officials said. Confirming it, the Army's Nagrota (Jammu)-based 16 Corps -also known as White Knight Corps- in a post on 'X' said, "In the ongoing joint operation by Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir po...Read More
New Delhi: With Indus Water Treaty (IWT) under abeyance following the Pahalgam terror attack in April, the Indian government has started work on the Tulbul Navigation project in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Besides, the government is also planning four hydro power projects on the western rivers that fall under IWT ambit to optimise India's share of water from these rivers. Union Jal Shakti minister Mr C.R. Patil said that India is not going to be intimidated by the threat calls of Pakistani politic...Read More
New Delhi: On Leader of the Opposition Mr Rahul Gandhi's demand for machine-readable, digital copy of the electoral roll for the last seven months, the sources in Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday said that this is not something new but a part of well thought out strategy of the party which it has been following for the last eight years. Referring to the Supreme Court case of 2019, Kamal Nath v. Election Commission of India, (2019) 2 SCC 260, sources said the demand reiterated by M...Read More
New Delhi: India should focus on extending their batting time and Rishabh pant must convert his hundreds into double centuries against an "average" England attack in the ongoing Test series, said senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in his detailed post-mortem of the team's five-wicket loss in the lung-opener at Leeds. Despite five centuries from their batters across both innings, India allowed England to chase their second highest target of 371 to concede a 0-1 lead in the five-match series....Read More
New Delhi: Astronaut Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to journey into space in 1984, says space travel alters the mindset of humans and makes them see the world from a perspective that "this planet belongs to everyone" and not a sole preserve of anyone. He shared his thoughts in a recorded podcast shared by the Ministry of Defence on a day India returned to space after 41 years, as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla from India and three other astronauts set forth on a landmark space odyssey on Wedn...Read More
Hyderabad: As the sensational murder of a 32-year-old private land surveyor G Tejeswar in Gadwal district rocked the State, his parents broke down before the police for losing one of their twin sons within one month of their marriage. The marriage of Tejeswar, a resident of Gadwal, was performed with Aishwarya, hailing from Kurnool, on May 18, 2025. However, he was murdered on June 17. As information related to the arrest of Aishwarya, her mother Sujatha, paramour V Tirumala Rao and other supa...Read More
New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla on Thursday said he was learning to live in microgravity conditions "like a baby" and it was an amazing experience to float in vacuum as the Dragon spacecraft circled the Earth in its journey to dock at the International Space Station. Sharing his experience via a videolink from the spacecraft, Shukla said after remaining in quarantine for 30 days, where he was far away from all the excitement, ahead of the launch of the Axiom-4 mission on Wednesday, "the ...Read More
Hyderabad: The RGIA police arrested one Satyanarayana for alleged involvement in an international human trafficking racket being run in the guise of a gold business, on Saturday. Satyanarayana was attempting to courier rolled gold jewellery samples to an agent in Muscat in Oman, RGIA Inspector Balaraju said. The arrest was followed by a complaint from one Lankapally Mary from West Godavari district, who lodged a complaint with the RGIA police two days back. In her complaint, Mary said that she...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday said that a commission has been formed that is currently conducting an inquiry into the Bengaluru stampede incident, where 11 people had lost their lives on June 4 during RCB's IPL victory celebrations. He further refrained from commenting further on the matter, noting that the state's Home Minister would provide a detailed response. 'The commission is conducting an inquiry. I will not say much. The Home M...Read More
New Delhi: The defence ministry will take up a Rs 10,000 crore proposal later this month to buy three spy planes from foreign manufacturers for the Indian Air Force to get a clear air-to-ground picture to carry out precision strikes against enemy ground targets like radar stations, air defence units and other objects. The systems on board on the aircraft -- part of the intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (I-STAR) project -- would be indigenous, developed by the DRD...Read More
Ahmedabad: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) police on Sunday registered an FIR against a couple from Vatva for allegedly cheating five people of a total Rs 55.38 lakh after promising them jobs in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).The complainant, a 40-year-old resident of Paldi, approached the police with a detailed account of the fraud. According to her, after the death of her husband in May 2020, she began looking for a job to support her two children.In Sep 2022, she was introduced...Read More